Latest Trend 2007 for E-Paper

Abstract

Electronic paper or e-Paper, which is thin like paper and can display characters or images, was introduced in around the latter half of the 1990's. And it is said that first year of e-Paper was 2004, when “sigma-Book” (LCD) by Panasonic and e-Book “Librie” (EPD) by Sony were introduced in the market. After that, many prototypes or products of e-Paper have followed to be introduced one after another in various applications until now. And also the related technologies have been evolved diversely. In this paper, some concept, applications, market and the technologies for e-Paper are introduced. In addition, I summarize the present status of e-Paper technologies and then propose the future trend, through recent influential institutes or academic conferences, i.e. International Display Workshop (IDW) 2006 (Dec. 2006, Japan) and SID2007 (May 2007, USA) etc.